Construction of whisky-racks for bonded warehouses



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11o-.1244,662. Patented 1111;'y 19,1881.A A

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"THOMAS J. PTTINGEMOF GETHsEMANE, KENTUCKY.

CONSTRUCTION oF wHlsKY-RACKS Fon BoNDED WAREHOUSES.

sPEcIFmATroN forming part ef Letters Patent lNe. 244,662, dated July 19, 1881.

' Appneenen nleu Mereu 1,1881. (Medel.)

To Il whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS J.Po'1"r1NGER, of- Gethsemane, in the county of Nelson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Whisky-Backs for Bonded Warehouses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.`

The object ofV this invention'is to reduce the cost of bonded warehouses for storage of whisky.

The revenue laws extending the bonding of whisky from one to three years make it necessary t'oincrease the number or capacity of'bonded warehouses, and it is desirable that the racks in such houses should combinegreat storage capacity with cheapness'o'f construc-y tion. The most approved methodof construction at presentis to set up rows of upright timbers Within the house, about three feet apart in one direction, and brace or hold them to gether Withpiron bolts and rods having nuts on each end, and to lay on these lbolts and rods the stringers in one tier above another for supporting the barrels of whisky. Y

This invention consists of racks composed of -a series of frames, each of which series is made of four stout upright timbers cross-channeled on one face and arranged side by side in pairs about three feet apart, each pair being tied together by two or more parallel timber or joist cross-ties, that are spiked or nailed one above another inthe crosschannels, and have their ends extending on veither side of the pair of uprights. right timbers are fixed in a stout sill, and have a suitable cap or top plate parallel with thel sill spiked on their` tops, and thus form a frame, several of which, set parallel with and facing each other at suitable distances apart, support long stringers of joist that rest on the protruding ends of the cross-ties, and are spiked to the outer faces of the nprights,'on which stringers the whisky-barrels are to b c placed. A set or group of frames and stringers forms arack, any desired number of which may be set up together, according to the size of the building.

The `drawing represents a perspective View of a rack constructed on my improved plan, with barrels stored in position. v

In the drawing, A represents a frame con- These two pairs of npright `timbers B B, but also as 'supports for'i the'stringers E, the ends of said cross-ties D extending beyond the sides of the timbers B B far enough for the 'said strin gers C to rest upon. The stringers E are preferably about eighteen feet long, or of any desiredlength, according to the size of the warehouse,'and each Stringer is supported at the center and ends by a cross-tie,`D. The ends of saidstringers E are also spiked, as shown at d, to the uprightposts BB, whereby additional strength .f

andv stability areA given to the whole rack.

Several of these frames A, together with suitable stringers, E, form a rack, and in this instance three of these frames A are included in a rack, as shown in the drawing. No rods nor bolts are used in the construction of these racks, but the only fasteniugs are spikes 'or nails.

Thewhisky-barrels are supported in single tiers on the stringers E, as shown. A warehouse eighty-fourfeet long, forty-two feet Wide, and sixteen feet high, containing these racks, with a six-feet passage-way extending centrally from one end to the other, and on each side of this passage-way as many racks with eighteen-feet stringers as can be placed with three-feet spaces between each rack, will hold about two thousand barrels of Whisky, the said barrels resting in single rows on the stringers E, as shown at H.

A bonded Warehouse with racks arranged cheaply. Each barrel is separately supported, and all are readily accessible.

I am aware'that the several parts of a barrel-rack have been spiked or nailed together; but

What I claim is 1. A whisky-rack constructed substantially as herein shown and described, consisting of 4on this plan can be fitted up very quickly and IOO transversely-cham]eled upright timbers B B, upright pairs of timbers B B, and sills and 1o set in pairs or sills F, spiked or nailed top plates F Gr, of the spiked pairs of cross-ties D plates, G, cross ties D D, in pairs, spiked or D and stringers E E, substantially as herein nailed in the channels of the timbers B B, shown and described.

5 stringers E E resting on the ends of the ties Y D D and nailed on the sides of timbers B B, THOMAS JEFFERSON POTTINGER" all as set forth. Witnesses:

2. In the construction of a whisky-rack, the B. C. SYMPsoN, combination, with the transversely-channeled l J. W. FARNSWORLH. 

